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JACOPONE da Todi

I cantici... con la gionta di alcuni discorsi… 1558.

HANDSOME VOLUME OF CELEBRATED RELIGIOUS POET

£1,850

MARTIALIS (Marcus Valerius)

Epigrammata paucis admodum vel reiectis, vel immutatis nullo Latinitatis… 1558.

CLEAN CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN

£3,500

GOLTWURM (Caspar)

Biblische Chronica, darinn die fürtrefliche Geschicht der heiligen… 1558.

NO COPIES OUTSIDE GERMANY

£5,000

EUSTATHIUS (Archbishop of Thessalonica) & HOMER

Copiae cornu sive oceanus enarrationum Homericarum, ex Eustathii… 1558.

OWNED BY AN EARLY CHAMPION OF WOMEN'S EDUCATION

£7,500

CAMERS (Joannes)

Commentaria in C. Iulii Solini polyhistora. Lucii Flori… 1557.

£1,500

PARADIN (Claude)

Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557.

INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT

£5,500

HOLOGNE (Gregoire de)

G. Holonii Catharina, 1556.

NEO-LATIN DRAMA

£1,400

LEO (Johannes).

Description de l'Afrique, 1556.

£25,000

[MOREL (Guillaume)]

De verbis anomalis libri II. Venice, [Comin da… 1555.

A PRETTY LITTLE BOOK

£575

BONAVENTURA (St.), pseudo

Meditationes devotissimae S. Bonaventurae Card. Super totam vitam… 1555.

£450

THUCYDIDES

L'histoire... de la guerre qui fut entre les… 1555.

TRANSLATED BY LOUIS XII'S ADVISOR

£850

BERNI (Francesco)

Il secondo libro dell'opere burlesche, di M. Francesco… 1555.

£650

CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro)

Della vera poetica libro uno. Al Conte Ulisse… 1555.

SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM

£2,500

BOCCHI (Achille)

Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat… 1555.

FIRST EDITION OF BOCCHI'S EMBLEMS

£4,000

DA CASTIGLIONE (Sabba)

Ricordi overo ammaestramenti, 1554.

WITH UNUSUAL WOODCUT DEPICTION OF THE LEFT-HANDED SCHOLAR

£2,750

ROBERTUS, of St. Remigius, Rheims

Historia della guerra fatta da principi christiani, contra… 1552.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE CRUSADES

£1,250

DIODORUS SICULUS

Bibliothecae historicae libri XVII, 1552.

£750

CAMERARIUS (Joachim)

Commentarii utriusque lingua, hoc est, diligens exquisitio nominum,… 1551.

£1,300

JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]

Institutionum D. Iustiniani sacratissimi principis libri IIII (bound… 1551.

HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS

£2,500

HORAPOLLO

(Title in Greek, then:) De sacris notis &… 1551.

HORAPOLLO AS AN EMBLEM BOOK

£3,500

[NEPOS (Cornelius)]

Emillio Probo de gli huomini illustri di Grecia.… 1550.

£500

GELLI (Giambattista)

La Circe. Florence, (appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, 1 April), 1549.

£1,250

FIRENZUOLA (Agnolo)

Le Rime di M. Agnolo Firenzuola Fiorentino, 1549.

£700

LUCIAN of Samosata

Opera. Quae quidem extant, omnia, e` Graeco sermone… 1549.

WITH THE ARMS OF MERY DE VIC

£4,500

MELANCHTHON (Philip)

Initia doctrinae physicae, dicta in academia Vvitebergensi. Wittenberg: J.… 1549.

EDUCATIONAL SAMMELBAND IN HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£5,750

BOOK OF HOURS (French & Latin)

Heures en Francoys & Latin a l'usaige de… 1549.

A MANNERIST BOOK OF HOURS

£9,500

BUDE (Guillaume)

Commentarii linguae Graecae... ab eodem accuratè recogniti, atque… 1548.

"THE DEFINITIVE EDITION"

£1,250

VICO (Enea) & ZANTANI (Antonio) &

Le imagini con tutti i riversi trovati et le vite de… 1548.

UNUSUAL NEAR CONTEMPORARY OWNERSHIP STAMP

£4,000

TOLOMEI (Claudio)

Due orazioni in lingua toscana. Accusa contra Leon… 1547.

DEDICATED TO THE PATRON OF THE 'CANEVARI BINDINGS'

£2,500

ARETINO (Pietro)

Le lettre di M. Pietro Aretino, di Nuovo… 1547.

£1,500

OVIDIUS NASO

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID

£2,500

ALAMANNI (Luigi)

La coltivatione, 1546.

AN ITALIAN EXILE'S GEORGICS

£1,500

CICERO (Marcus Tullius)

M T Ciceronis Brutus, seu de claris Oratoribus,… 1546.

BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BY JEAN LOYS

£2,000

AELIANUS

Αιλιανου ποικιλης ιστοριας. βιβλια ιδ. Εκ την Ηρακλειδου… 1545.

EDITIO PRINCEPS

£5,000

PHILANDRIER (Guillaume)

In decem libros M. Vitruvii Pollionis de architectura… 1544.

EARLY CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VITRUVIUS

£4,500

[LAWS FOR THE INDIES] & CHARLES V.

Leyes y ordenancas nueuamente hechas por su Magestad… 1543.

THE FIRST BOOK OF AMERICAN LAW

£130,000

GIANNOTTI (Donato)

Libro de la republica de Vinitiani. (Rome, Antonio… 1542.

£680

BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)

Le Philocope de Messire Jehan Boccace florentin, contena(n)t… 1542.

OWNED BY A PICARDY COUNTESS IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

£9,500

SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS ARTIST

The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial… 1541.

A VIBRANT MINIATURE

£6,500

BEMBO (Pietro)

Gliasolani, 1540.

£600

BEBENBURG (Lupold von)

Veterum Germaniae principum.  Paris, Jean Foucher, 1540, 1540.

ONE OF THE EARLIEST FRENCH EX-LIBRIS STAMPS RECORDED

£1,800

CAPELLA (Galeazzo Flavio)

Commentarii . . . delle cose fatte per… 1539.

£950